@blewj this ain't disco dead yo. 77 was disco dead. this is early incantations of the country dead, which blossomed into jazzy dead, then alt/jazz dead, then disco dead, then, after many years of awesome music, finally became dead dead. long live all of the dead!!

@spacemeddle I'm actually reading Phil Lesh's book right now and he says that the band chose to not be filmed. The guys who got the MPF up and running wanted to film every act and sell it as a movie, but the Dead declined the offer to be filmed because they did not know where all the money would be ending up (aka a bunch of bum record execs profiting off the beauty of the event.)

This video proves that Phil Lesh can't remember what happned at Monterey. Clearly, the Dead WERE filmed. It was Big Brother's manager who refused to have that band filmed. After their set was well-received, Janis Joplin persuaded John Phillips to allow the band to play again for the cameras despite their manager's objections.

Viola Lee Blues was not filmed in its entirety because the song went on for too long (this is according to D.A. Pennebaker, the film's director).